Overview

Overview

A new annual volume of original articles on all aspects of warfare in the middle ages.

Warfare is one of the central themes of medieval history. Until now, however, there has been no journal dedicated specifically to this area. The Journal of Medieval Military History, the new annual journal of De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History will remedy this situation by publishing top-quality scholarly articles on topics across the full thematic and chronological ranges of the study of war in the middle ages. Medieval society was dominated by men who considered themselves more as soldiers than landlords, judges or administrators. More of society's resources went into fortifications than cathedrals; deeds of arms were a topic rivalled in literature only by love; and in many times and places the common people dreaded war far more than famine or plague. War was the greatest force in determining the evolution of medieval governments. Although the study of war, its conduct and its impact, has never been absent from medieval historiography, the past few decades have seen this field rise to new prominence.

Table of Contents

The Vegetian 'Science of Warfare' in the Middle Ages - Clifford J RogersBattle Seeking: The Contexts and Limits of Vegetian Strategy - Stephen R MorilloItalia - Bavaria - Avaria: The Grand Strategy behind Charlemagne's Renovatio Imperii in the West - Charles R BowlusThe Composition and Raising of the Armies of Charlemagne - John FranceSome Observations on the Role of the Byzantine Navy in the Sucess of the First Crusade - Bernard S BachrachBesieging Bedford: Military Logistics in 1224 - Emilie M Amt'To aid the Custodian and Council': Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June-July 1399 - Douglas BiggsFlemish Urban Militias Against the French Cavalry Armies in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries [a translation of J.F. Verbruggen's article][a translation of J.F. Verbruggen's article] - Kelly DeVries